Sometimes a picture tells more than the story

The story in the New York Times is about the excessive number of fast-food restaurants in America:
But the picture that illustrates it tells another part of the story:
The worst of Motordom: wide, featureless, high-speed arterials; no sidewalks; no street frontage. Dangerous for kids, of course – one of whom looks to already be overweight.
“Large side,” indeed.